I've been using scanstate and loadstate from the Windows Automated Installation Kit to go from 7 to 10 and 10 to 10. I like it better than easy transfer because it's command line and scriptable.

It s good advices to Sysprep for windows 7

Huh - MS finally made a single ISO solution - FINALLY!!!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/14/microsoft_windows_10_dhcp/

I guess up config release and renew didn't work for a lot of people.

Someone pointed out that they put an update out online for people who can't get online.

WSUS still controls updates to Windows 10 1607 installs.

aww please share the list. but start a new thread - Gene's new laptop thread.

Sadly booting the system on another similar laptop didn't resolve the clean shutdown. And when I try to boot on a different computer, I get a Partition Table error.

So mounted as Read Only and am in the process of moving the user profile(s) to an external drive.

sudo mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdb1 /media/username/Ubuntu

Is what I had to use.

@Breffni-Potter said in Microsoft Unveils My People in Windows 10:

How is that different/better to the half a dozen chat apps I have already which do exactly that?

Apple have a big leap forward in their OS with Imessage, I can send SMSes to my contacts via my computer but it relays through the phone, perfect.

Cortana can do that now too.

You could also use the Free Veeam Endpoint Backup, in latest version it also has CryptoLocker protection for USB attached external storage devices.

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 Update 1607 seems to be removing .Net 3.5:

@travisdh1 said in Windows 10 Update 1607 seems to be removing .Net 3.5:

@JaredBusch So how the [self-moderated] do certain, previously named, companies make things that require very specific not-quite-upgraded versions of certain components of .net? I mean, they target specific versions of files that are a part of .net. When I go bald, at least I'll know why!

Because they do not want to spend the money to recompile for newer versions in order to maintain a stupid high level of compatibility with people using old shit.

You think they're actually bothering to use the tool you posted? Nope. They're checking the filenames on the system. I forget exactly which files they do this for, but it's super annoying because it didn't match with the latest updates or original version last time I had to install the P.O.S.

@MattSpeller said in Windows 10 won't finish updating:

@Dashrender Broken is the natural state of a WSUS server unless regularly poked at.

that doesn't make me feel better 🙂

@wrx7m said in WSUS 2012 (r2) support for Windows 10:

I see mention of SCCM in the article. Does this only apply to SCCM-related installs of WSUS?

No, this whole problem is related to WSUS only. I'm guessing the author mentioned SCCM because that's how he became aware of the problem.

I solved this by removing all but one profile on the machine, then running
sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot

Then during the mini setup I joined to Azure AD.

Do a check disk on it as well. It might have errors and windows might have mounted it read only for safety.

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Fails to Meet Expectations:

https://fossbytes.com/windows-10-failure-according-microsofts-metric/

Microsoft no longer expecting to hit their billion device number.

They made that announcement months ago. or at least I heard they did from Paul Thurrott.

@IRJ said in Windows 10 changes default application:

How are you using this? Logon script?

No - I haven't done anything with them yet.

If anything I think I will put them in my GP.

that breaking of webcams is going to keep me from rolling it out for a while on most machines.

@Breffni-Potter said in Windows 10 Anniversary Edition May Delete Partitions!:

Apple trash Windows and Linux installs on OSx frequently,

I have high-lighted the bit you quoted in bold. How is this a problem exclusive to Windows if OSX can and has broken installs as well?

Also I'm sure Linux installs can break the Windows partition as well, through carelessness or a bad bit of software installed, you can break that storage. We don't know how or why this happened exactly with Windows 10 but I'm willing to bet some kind of cleanup script was run at the end of the install which for reasons unknown, decided to terminate this partition. We don't know why but it's rubbish to say Windows is the only OS in history to have done this in the specific scenario of having more than 1 OS installed on the same storage.

@scottalanmiller said

That the most common use case that Windows fails during is caused by dual booting intention doesn't change the fact that the issue is not exclusive to dual booting scenarios.

Where are they saying that on the article though?

Where did I say that Windows was the only OS in history to misbehave and kill storage? And I don't see how OSX being less than ready for prime time (something very evident to me from having tried to use it) excuses Windows from being stable?

I understand, Linux is great and everything else is crap. Linux definitely tends to take data integrity much more seriously than Windows. But why does this need to be about who is better or worse? This is about Windows having a data integrity issue right now that people need to look out for and be aware of and they should not be mislead to think that it is anything except a Windows data integrity issue - it is not reliably handling its own partition table.

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

I'm not upgrading :X I had no prep time

You can still make it. Just grab a USB stick (I think 8GB is needed), use the Windows 10 download tool and it takes care of everything for you. Very easy.

No I mean I literally can't. They have stuff running that requires XP. It's insanity.

Can XP be virtualized on top of Windows 10?

Can I use smoke signals instead of the internet or a cell phone? Sure, but why?

Get Windows 10 for the every day tasks. Get ready for the future. Limit XP to XP-only tasks. What's the game plan with staying behind on XP? It's not indefinitely supportable. You are already heading down a path of disaster. Sure, it is a long path, but there is no more support, no security updates, things will only get more and more dangerous and precarious and when something goes wrong, it's going to go really, really wrong.

I've got 3 neurons firing boys. Please don't take anything I say seriously. Of course there is a reason to do that. I'd run it in virtualbox and call it a day. There is so much to fix here I don't even know where to begin.

Well Windows 10 would be a priority to fix today. Easy one to put at the top of the list. Are the XP machines originally purchased with Windows 7?

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I got it. I overthink everything. 🙂